A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9112, 3 April 1908, Page 7

A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

There would be entertaining reading (writes St James’ Budget) if we could trace the history of some of the donations which figure in the mighty total given to charity during the year just closed. One subscription which annually appears originated in a comical blunder. A. wellknown sporting nobleman was in the habit of transacting turf business with a comihission agent, whose name happened to correspond with that of the gentleman interested in a deserving charity in the same town. To this latter gentleman there one day came a cheque bearing the nobleman’s name. Soon after a second followed. The honorary ['secretary, believing that the age of miracles had returned, wrote a letter of cordial thanks to the generous donor. The latter replied that there had been a slight mistake; that cheques intended for quite a different purpose had reached the charity. Still, being there, there they should remain, and, now that he knew something of the movement, he would be glad to become an annual subscriber. And so to this day he remains.